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I think you might be confusing sprint review with sprint retrospective? What you describe is the sprint retrospective, and when teams are autonomous enough to actually act on their pain points, it's easily the most useful scrum ceremony, IMHO.

Sprint reviews are really kinda just a wankfest where people show nice graphs and demos for an audience that either already knows or doesn't care.

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> it's easily the most useful scrum ceremony, IMHO.

Agreed. I would kill almost anything else from scrum (maybe weeklys can stay too. Sometimes they are useful), but sprint retros stay. And also agreed about the uselessness of sprint reviews. I've never been in one and thought later that I've learned anything or was useful to anyone in there. It's like going to church without being religious in villages. "The community would look with disgust at us if we weren't there on Sunday. So, we are there."

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